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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   THE NATIONALISTIC DISCOURSE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA. A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE.

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  Abstract:  This paper offers a general analysis on internal and external political conditions that facilitated the inclusion of national problem in the political discourse of the Romanian Communist Party, on the one hand and also the way in which this evolution influenced the development of the communist regime, on the other hand. On this respect, our paper reveals also the main instruments used by Romanian propaganda in order to spread its nationalist message to the people. The appeal to national discourse was mainly determined by the dispute between Romanian Workers’ Party and Soviet Communist Party occurred in the beginning of the ‘60s regarding the Romanian strategy for socialist development. On this respect, the appeal to the nation and national interests was used by the Workers’ Party to sustain the industrialization of Romania, for the leaders considered that industrialization is the only valid solution for development and socialist modernization.

Keywords: nationalist discourse, socialist development, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Protochronism, Cântarea României, Daciada 		 
         
     
         
         
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